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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-TsGzhsN8 5/6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soKFraGA-oU 6/6...

»Aghora (literally, "non-terrifying") is the spiritual path that seeks to negate all that is ghora ("terrible, terrifying") in life. The ghora encompasses all those experiences that most people find intolerable, for almost everyone is as ready to enjoy life's pleasures as they are to avoid misery. Most spiritual advisers admonish their devotees to shy away from the ghora, but aghoris (practitioners of Aghora) embrace the ghora fervidly, for what most terrifies an aghori is the prospect of becoming mired in duality. Aghoris go so far into the ghora that the ghora becomes tolerable to them; diving deeply into darkness, an aghori finally surfaces into light. No means to awakening is too disgusting or frightening for an aghori, for Aghora is the Path of the Shadow of Death, the path that forcibly separates an individual from attachment to every ordinary self-descriptor.

Aghora's temple is the smashan (cremation ground), where aghoris worship death, the Great Transformer, with a savage, all-consuming love. Those who are enslaved by their cravings think aghoris mad for displaying such ferocity in their quest for knowing. They condemn Aghora's outwardly repugnant practices because they cannot see beneath their ritual skin. If they could but peep into an aghori's heart they would find there an ache for Reality so fierce that no means could be too extreme to achieve it. This ache drives the divine fury, the passionately unrestrained non-attachment to absolutely everything, that is Aghora's hallmark. Aghoris earn their illumination by incinerating themselves moment by moment in their own internal fires, laughingly consuming any substance and performing any activity that might further enkindle their awareness. They seize every moment of life that God offers to them, even a trip to the toilet, as a fresh opportunity to surrender to the One. Good aghoris takes their temples with them as they wander the world, ceaselessly amazed to witness the universe consuming itself in the fires of an ongoing cosmic cremation.

Aghora like alchemy substitutes for a set recipe of self-development an outline whose details differ for each practitioner. Each aghori and his customs are unique, and in truth all one aghori has in common with another is their degree of intensity and determination. Aghoris become so desperate in their quests that they channel their every thought and feeling into a super-obsession, a single-minded quest to achieve the Beloved. They endeavor eternally to dismember their restricted selves fully, that God may have a free hand to re-member them completely. They die day by day while they are still alive, that by dying to their limitations they can be reborn into the eternal life of Reality.

Aghoris achieve laser-like focus by learning to awaken and cultivate that evolutionary power that the Tantras call Kundalini. Vimalananda comments, "Ahamkara, your 'I-creating' faculty, continuously remembers you by self-identifying with all the cells in your body and all the facets of your personality. Ahamkara is your personal shakti (power); she integrates the many parts of you into the individual that you are. You develop spiritually when you can cause ahamkara to realize, little by little, that she is actually She: the Kundalini Shakti. This growing realization gradually awakens Kundalini, and as She awakens She forgets to self-identify with your limited human personality. Then She is ready to recollect something new."« (Robert Svoboda)

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[chinnareddyism]

@blessedyoga gud

[blessedyoga]

@barath4545 Noone on this earth can prove that god exists because he is everything. The only way to see if god exists is to realize him within yourself because you and he/she are one. Can you prove to me that love exists? No, you can't because love is a feeling, you have to have felt the feeling to know what I am talking about, just like God. It takes faith, with faith comes power to accomplish anything in this world.

[blessedyoga]

@itsmeshax Nothing suggests that their is life after death, Karma only exits if you believe it or not. Same with any other philosophy. Karma is just a reason why good or bad things happen in our lives.

[blessedyoga]

@Vedas4 the reason why its is you worship one god is to realize that we are all one being. That all our souls are connected because we come from the one source (God). The reason why its good to know that their is one god so you can become one with the all loving, omnipresent god that is found within you. The hindu gods are all just different aspects of that one source that is found in each deity.

[Vedas4]

@Vedas4 3 main religions? lol Christianity Islam and Hinduism are the three main religions. Something I will never understand with idiotic ideologies of closed minded Abrahamic religions: You think that God is "good" and that the opposite of God is "evil/satan"...... who do you think created this concept of evil? Hinduism is beyond Good and evil. We see God within everything, the Sun as well as the candle, the day as well as the night. This is why Hindus have more respect for others.

[itsmeshax]

@Vedas4 Yes, I do think your ancestors created them. Having many gods suggests different people created them and it all strung into one religion - hinduism. Having one God is better since it is the rules and regulations from ONE being rather than many. If there were many, who'd get the last say? Why? Would they not argue? Your scriptures make no sense. How is throwing yourself at the worse things better for you? RATHER than just be a good person as is described in the 3 main religions?

[itsmeshax]

@Vedas4 Umm, you just stated two different points and have failed to link them. Karma is a belief and is unproven to exist. The "science" behind it involved a sample of people to do good things or bad things to other people and see what happened. Newtons involvement was simply that doing good things will help your depression, which is simple common sense, so yh, nice try. Thats not the same karma as suggested in hindu scripts so yh, you failed. AND NOTHING suggests "karma" continues after death.

[Vedas4]

@itsmeshax You're asking why we don't remember our previous lives. Where were you before you were born? It's based on Karma, a Vedic concept that IS PROVEN by Newton's laws! The Vedas are highly scientific and so are all of our scriptures which are thousands unlike the one bible or one quran or one torah. Our God understands that we are all different so gives us different forms to worship him and different scriptures to get closer to him. Ask university systems why they have many majors!

[Vedas4]

@itsmeshax Which religion doesn't have a founder? Only Hinduism! Do you think we created Gods to worship? No, our God's have led us to the greatest ways of thinking that the ancient Chinese, Arabs, and Greeks learned from. Isn't it funny how prosperous the Egyptians and Greeks were when their Gods prospered? Do you think your ancestors never worshipped Gods? I grew up here in USA still I don't understand why the west thinks having one god is better than many. Why not?

[strangerlover11]

@barath4545 Its about your understanding not mine.